The presence of a developmental trend in the magnitude of perceptual repetition priming was assessed using a picture completion task. Found that four- and six-year olds and young adults showed the same amount of repetition priming when both a proportional measure of priming was used and spurious explicit memory influences were partialed out from…

Administered Logical Memory subtest of Wechsler Memory Scale to 40 closed-head-injured (CHI) and 40 control subjects. Tested recall immediately after administration, 40 minutes later, and 24 hours later. Results suggest that CHI patients have difficulty selectively retrieving most important information after long delay. (Author/NB)

Investigated relationships among participants' assessments of working alliance, effectiveness of counseling sessions, and memories for important therapeutic events in 10 counseling dyads. Found that counselors exhibited greater specificity of recall of important events for sessions rated as more effective and showed greater specificity of recall…

Findings reveal that memory retrieval at six months of age is highly specific to the setting in which the memory is acquired. This suggests that infants learn what events are associated with what places before they are able to locomote independently and acquire a spatiotemporal map of the relations between those places. (RH)

Three age groups (ages 20, 45, and 65 years) indicated whether they owned each of 30 commercial memory aids and rated usefulness of each aid. Each age group used or perceived certain aids as more useful than did other groups. Results suggest that memory aid usage differs with age partly because memory tasks required changes with life stage.…

A. Baddeley's model of the working memory of congenitally deaf persons is examined in light of research on encoding by this population. It is concluded that a model of the working memory of the deaf must include subsystems for articulatory, sign, and visual encoding. (Author/DB)

Examined whether delayed recall factor could be found by substituting percent retained (saving) scores for existing Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) delayed recall subtests scores. Principal component analyses of age-corrected WMS-R immediate and save scores in mixed clinical sample (n=168) failed to find hypothesized save factor. (Author/NB)

Notes that variety of reaction time measures have been developed and studied as correlates of intelligence. Describes several of most widely used reaction time tests and reports summaries of their correlations with intelligence. Describes model that attempts to account for relationship between speed-of-processing and intelligence in terms of…

Provides eight ways for trainers to avoid overloading trainees: prepare succinct reference materials, let learners do more, chunk training, design materials with memory aids, create job aids, build automaticity, give learners "training wheels," and detect and correct overload during training. (JOW)

Three experiments examined whether and how the strength of original information and strength of misleading information influenced 3- to 5-year olds' memory for an event. Findings indicated that children exposed to the event once reported more misled details than those seeing the event multiple times, and were just as susceptible to misleading…

Reviews prior research to stress the functionality of fluidity in making ready information to support comprehension. Explores the fading of ready information, demonstrating how quickly the accessibility of information mutually known to two reunited characters fades when the text engages other topics. Describes a series of phenomena that cohere…

This study examined whether children with high-functioning autism have a dissociation between explicit and implicit memory abilities characteristic of medial temporal lobe amnesic disorder. Children (N=14 and ages 6-14) with autism showed intact implicit and explicit memory abilities but did not show typical memory patterns, suggesting they used…

Four experiments examined the effects of reenactment on 18-month-olds' event memory. Results indicated that reenacting novel activities in a laboratory playroom improved event memory. Reenactment was more effective after a time delay, and the effects of timing of reenactment were more pronounced after a six-month delay. Reenacting half of the…

The disconnection between mind and body that characterizes Western thought rejects the experiences of the body as a part of experiential learning. Because experience is located in the body, experiential learning is better understood as a process of "re-membering." (Contains 32 references.) (SK)

Use of videotapes and questions from a trained inquirer can help reduce memory distortion that can occur in reflection. The Interpersonal Process Recall approach increases the reliability of memory and the exploration of events in depth when ambiguous interpersonal interactions are involved. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)